[ale] VMware and RH5.2

[hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu (Michael Hirsch)]

cfowler at avana.net writes:
> 
> on my P133 win98 runs well but every few secods stops for a few
> seconds.  This is very annoying.  Vmware reports problems using
> /dev/rtc upon bootup of guest OS.  I hope the lose of /dev/rtc
> has noting tho do with upgrading to kernel 2.2.4-ac4 on rh5.2.
>  When I try to open /dev/rtc I get the error message "operation
> not supported by device".  This could be the reason I have problems
> under win98.

I would guess that is right.  One my dual PII machine I had similar
pauses untill I recompiled the kernel with rtc support.  I would check
your kernel configuration carefully--with all those options maybe you
left out rtc by accident?

--Michael